The 82nd edition of the United States’ longest-running survey of contemporary art has no formal theme, but curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer are continuing the previous edition’s emphasis on ‘relationality’. Here, themes of family, friendship, geopolitics and technological connection are to the fore (8 March–23 August). In the year of the United States’ semiquincentennial, much of the art explores the country’s disintegrating internal systems – of healthcare, justice and the environment, among other things – and its place on the world stage. There is some striking work on display: Aziz Hazara, one of this year’s Apollo 40, presents Moon Sightings (2024), photographs made with a night-vision camera that recall US surveillance tactics in Afghanistan. On a warmer note, Emilie Louise Gossiaux’s Kong Play comprises 100 ceramic renditions of the toys that belonged to her guide dog, London, who died in September. Though the work dates to the previous year, it is joined by a range of imaginative drawings that illustrate the bond between Gossiaux and London – a reminder that relationality can take many forms.
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